The Vatican and Germany.—It is very plain to observers that the Vatican is playing a double-faced part at the present time. It has raised no protest against the German atrocities in Belgium, though many Roman Catholic priests have severely suffered among others. It appears that there are three official agents representing Austria, Bavaria, and Prussia, at the Vatican, with numerous subordinate agents attached. The Pope and his advisers will side with the party from which they will ultimately expect to get the greatest gain by. Thus they are trying, in Jesuitical fashion, to keep in friendly touch with the nations on both sides of the present conflict. Britain is foolish to have anything to do with such a deceitful foe.
Vigorous Letter on Mr. R. J. Campbell and the Pope.—Mr. G. Bonugli, Stranraer, a convert some time since from the Roman Catholic Church, writes a strong and pointed letter to the Protestant Alliance Magazine on the above subject. Among other things, he says: “In the sunlight of Bible truth, Mr. Campbell’s proposal is nothing less than a fantastic delusion, enough to make the very bones of those martyrs who died for the noble cause of Protestantism turn in their graves. What! the Pope to preside at a conference with Christians or Protestants? No! never! No alliance or complicity with the Papacy, our eternal enemy.”